Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
India’s Lunar Mission Finds Evidence of Water on the Moon
September 24th, 2009Via: Times:
Dreams of establishing a manned Moon base could become reality within two decades after India’s first lunar mission found evidence of large quantities of water on its surface.
Data from Chandrayaan-1 also suggests that water is still being formed on the Moon. Scientists said the breakthrough — to be announced by Nasa at a press [...]
CryptoFib: Automatically Generate Fibonacci Retracement Levels in EasyLanguage
September 8th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument.
I was looking for an indicator that automatically generates Fibonacci retracement levels when a move exceeds a specified number of pips over a specified number of bars.
There must be some indicators out there that do this, but I couldn’t find any in [...]
Shit My Dad Says
September 4th, 2009I wish I’d thought of this first: shitmydadsays:
“Jesus it’s hot in here? Right? No? It’s fucking hot, you people looking at me like i’m crazy. You’re crazy.”
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
August 14th, 2009Croudsourced WooWoo Trading Experiment
August 5th, 2009I have a nice gain on a stock trade that is live in the market now. Earnings are about to be released.
I have written out options on how to proceed. Below are four different randomly generated 16 character strings. One of those corresponds to the optimal course of action to take. Optimal means that the [...]
Off Topic: Calculate Digital Roots of Close Prices in EasyLanguage
August 1st, 2009I wanted to plot the digital roots of close prices in MultiCharts/EasyLanguage. For example, a close is 1.29. That is: 1+2+9 = 12, then 1+2 = 3. The result is 3.
It took me awhile to figure out how to implement the modulo operation properly in EasyLanguage, but I did it and I thought I’d share [...]
The James Leininger Reincarnation Story
June 13th, 2009Related: Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Andrea Leininger and Bruce Leininger
Related: Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives by Dr. Jim Tucker
Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified
June 12th, 2009I don’t know what to do with this one.
Via: Space:
For 15 years, scientists have benefited from data gleaned by U.S. classified satellites of natural fireball events in Earth’s atmosphere – but no longer.
A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret [...]
600ft Jellyfish Crop Circle Found in Oxfordshire Field
June 2nd, 2009Well, at least it wasn’t Cthulhu.
Via: Telegraph:
A 600ft jellyfish pattern has appeared in a barley field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire, in what is one of the most intriguing crop circles ever seen in Britain.
The vast pattern appeared in the field last week and experts are claiming it to be the first of its kind in [...]
$500 Off Coupon for MultiCharts Gold
May 30th, 2009In my recent post about being frugal, I wrote that I often wait for things to go on sale before buying them, and when they finally go on sale, I wind up talking myself out of going through with the purchase.
Here’s a case in point:
I received a $500 off coupon for some trading software that [...]
